Polygraphies: Francophone Women Writing Algeria - Rilegato

Rice, Alison

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ISBN 10: 0813932912 ISBN 13: 9780813932910

Casa editrice: Univ of Virginia Pr, 2012

Riassunto

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Algeria's independence, Polygraphies is significant and timely in its focus on autobiographical writings by seven of the most prominent francophone women writers from Algeria today, including Maïssa Bey, Hélène Cixous, Assia Djebar, and Malika Mokeddem. These authors witnessed both the "before" and "after" of the colonial experience in their land, and their fictional and theoretical texts testify to the lasting impact of this history. From a variety of personal perspectives and backgrounds, each writer addresses linguistic, religious, and racial issues of crucial contemporary importance in Algeria. Alison Rice engages their work from a range of disciplines, striving both to heighten our sensitivity to the plurality inherent in their texts and to move beyond a true/false dichotomy to a wealth of possible truths, all communicated in writing.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Alison Rice, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Literature at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of Time Signatures: Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Virginia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0813932912
• ISBN 13: 9780813932910
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 243
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile